Word: purser
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More committal was recently re-elected Rep. Fred Grandy '70 (D-lowa), perhaps best known for his portrayal of "Gopher," the bumbling assistant purser on the television series "The Love Boat...
Close Quarters thus begins in anticlimax. The unnamed old warship is wallowing through the torrid zone west of Africa. Talbot buys another book of blank paper from the ship's purser and resolves to continue writing without quite knowing why: "There is an inevitable difference between this journal, meant for, for, I do not know for whom, and the first one meant for the eyes of a godfather who is less indulgent than I pretended. In that volume I had all my work done for me." His surviving fellow passengers do not strike Talbot as promising heroes or heroines...
...There are more ideas in this party right now, more flexibility," said Grandy, answering questions on the future of the Grand Old Party. Grandy used to play the part of the purser Gopher on the TV show "Love Boat...
Didn't Reagan and Clint Eastwood play more demanding roles? The ratings that Fred Grandy used to get as Gopher, the shambling, befuddled purser on Love Boat, will undoubtedly be better than those he gets on C-Span. The latest Republican ex-actor in Washington won a narrow congressional race in Iowa, despite criticism that he too lately sailed back into his native port...
Grandy, known to millions worldwide as the bumbling and hapless yeoman purser "Gopher" Smith on TV's "Love Boat", Grandy graduated magna cum laude in English and gave the Ivy Oration. Grandy, who roomed with David Eisenhower while at Phillips Exeter Academy, said during an interview last year with The Crimson that he thought the Gopher image would help him in his quest for election...